Solomon's Knife

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Writers often refer to their novels as their "babies," with good reason. The labor through which they go to give birth to such cre-ations can often be as traumatic, physically and mentally, as the birth of a human being. Worse, the labor can last for years. The reward, though, is a lovely offspring that has the potential to live beyond its creator and touch other lives in myriad ways.

And, as with babies, the final, full-grown product is the result of many individual influences that combine to make the whole. A writer's experiences, research, and input from friends are the ge-netic material of the work. What follows is a DNA map of Solomon's Knife. "

The initial germ of the story came from that veritable fount of ideas, Samuel Edward Konkin III, whose sarcastic offhand com-ment sparked a helix of thoughts in me.

Wendy McElroy, erstwhile editrix of The Voluntaryist, wrote a passionate, logical defense of abortion that inspired me to counter-attack, with equal fervor, the flaws I perceived in her arguments. J. Neil Schulman encouraged me to write a non-fiction article about a procedure that does not exist, which ultimately found no market. Then he convinced me that a fictional treatment offered more latitude in examining the potential of such an innovation. His constant enthusiasm and support brought this work to fruition. Fur-thermore, his heroic efforts to create a new form of literature for the third millennium-the Paperless Book-has ensured that you can read this book whenever you want in the edition over which the author has had total control. Long live Pulpless.Com!

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